"BOOM!"
With a loud bang, the city gate collapsed, revealing to everyone the dim, pitch-black hall that let in not even a sliver of light.
Fang Li looked at the eerie space before him, his pitch-black eyes glimmering faintly with a deep glow. Within his body, the power that originally belonged to the True Ancestor began to stir slightly, allowing Fang Li to see the pitch-black space with perfect clarity.
This was one of the conveniences brought to Fang Li by Arcueid's power.
"So dark… I feel like I can't see a thing."
"With visibility this low, even if monsters appear, we might not even notice them."
Unlike Fang Li, who possessed the power of the True Ancestor and could clearly see through the darkness, Megumin and Darkness seemed to struggle to perceive their surroundings and instinctively became cautious.
This time, however, Kazuma and Aqua were the opposite of Megumin and Darkness.
"Good thing I learned the Clairvoyance skill."
The Archer-class Clairvoyance skill didn't just allow one to see far away, it also granted night vision abilities. So even in this darkness, Kazuma could still more or less see his surroundings.
"For someone like me, a Goddess, this level of darkness is child's play."
As a Goddess, Aqua originally possessed the divine eyes that could see through the world itself. However, ever since descending to the lower world, Aqua's divine power had weakened considerably.
Even so, Aqua's eyes could still pierce through the darkness without any hindrance.
Therefore, Aqua was perhaps the one among them who could see their surroundings most clearly.
Having understood everyone's conditions, Fang Li gave a silent nod, then lifted his gaze and looked ahead into the darkness, speaking:
"Monsters are coming. Stay alert."
This wasn't something Fang Li saw, it was the response of his Enemy Detection skill.
"Monsters? Why didn't I notice anything?"
Even though Kazuma also had the Enemy Detection skill, he didn't detect anything at all and looked surprised.
But this wasn't particularly strange.
Even with the same skill, the effectiveness can vary greatly.
Fang Li had already leveled up his Enemy Detection skill using free skill points from the Main God's Dimension. Whether in terms of range or effectiveness, it far surpassed its level 1 version and was naturally beyond comparison to Kazuma's newly acquired skill. Otherwise, there'd have been no reason for Fang Li to level it up.
As everyone raised their guard, from the darkness ahead came the sound of slow, staggering footsteps.
When the source of the footsteps entered their line of sight, everyone was startled.
"Grr…"
"Grr…"
The sounds were like those of wild beasts.
However, what made these sounds were not beasts, but corpses.
Yes, corpses.
In that moment, one by one, rotting or shriveled corpses wearing tattered clothing and holding rusty weapons began to shamble out of the darkness.
"Uwaah!"
Seeing this scene, both Kazuma and Megumin were startled and instinctively took two steps back.
Aqua and Darkness, however, had their expressions turn grim. Aqua even shouted in anger, her face furious.
"So they're Undead? I was wondering who had the guts to try and scare me!"
----Undead.
They are monsters who, due to overwhelming regret and resentment, reject death and become undead-like beings. These creatures are commonly referred to as Undead.
This race of monsters ranges from the low-level Zombies, newly reanimated from corpses, to high-tier beings like Liches and Vampires, who are known as kings of the Undead. They are one of the mainstream monster types in this world, appearing in various places around the globe.
After all, in every world, the one thing in greatest supply... is the dead.
So Aqua's deep hatred for Undead is completely natural.
So-called gods are, in essence, higher beings who guide mortals in the lower world.
Undead creatures, however, are those who reject divine guidance, resist death, and linger unwillingly in the mortal realm. Such existences, like the Devils of Hell, eternal enemies of the gods since ancient times, are of the same category: unwanted by the divine.
Therefore, even Priests and Archpriests, who serve the gods, reject the Undead and Devils. Let alone Aqua, a Goddess herself, it is almost an instinctive loathing.
Even Darkness, a Crusader who holds the title of Holy Knight and Defender of the Faith, furrowed her brows.
"Grr…"
"Grr…"
The Undead, one after another, continued to emit low growls as they staggered forward, eyes gleaming with malice, slowly gathering toward them.
In the blink of an eye, a large number of Undead had appeared.
"There's so many! So many Undead!"
"I can use my Explosion Magic now, right? With this many monsters, using Explosion to clear them out is clearly the best way!"
Kazuma and Megumin shouted as they retreated.
In response, they got Aqua's confident declaration: "These low-level Undead, just watch me purify them all! Then everything will be fine!"
As she said that, Aqua extended her hand toward the Undead, only to suddenly remember something important. With a nervous glance at Fang Li, she cautiously asked:
"Um… Can I purify them?"
Upon hearing this, Fang Li simply glanced at the horde of Undead ahead and said: "Even if you can purify them all, you'd have to use purification magic several times. That's too much of a waste of magic power."
Fang Li turned to look at Darkness.
"Darkness, lure those monsters together. Don't let them spread out."
At Fang Li's words, Darkness was first stunned, then looked overjoyed.
"Really?" Darkness said excitedly. "I get to lure them?"
This masochistic knight truly wanted to be trampled by monsters.
"Decoy!"
In the next second, Darkness's body emitted a strange wave of power.
"------ "
Sensing this abnormal power, all the staggering Undead suddenly paused in their steps.
"Aaaaah---!"
With eerie, chilling howls, the Undead suddenly lost all reason. Their movements turned swift and agile, their footsteps now powerful enough to seemingly crack bones, and they charged madly in Darkness's direction.
Instantly, the swarm of Undead surged forward like a thousand troops galloping into battle, stampeding toward Darkness.
"They're coming, they're coming, they're coming!!"
Standing in front of Aqua, Darkness spread her arms wide as if preparing to be her shield, shouting with intense excitement:
"Come! Come at me! I won't dodge! Hurry up and come at me already!"
And so, in the midst of the hopeless panting of the super masochist knight, a horde of Undead swallowed her whole.
(End Of This Chapter)
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